How closely have you been following Merseyside’s art scene this year? Find out by answering the questions below
1.Which former Everyman Youth member returned to the Hope Street theatre to play Macbeth?
2. What is the name of the Liverpool-born architect chosen to redesign the Royal Court?
3. The Open Eye Gallery moved into its new home at Mann Island this year. What medium does it specialise in?
4. What is the nationality of the surrealist painter Rene Magritte, whose work was featured in Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition?
5. The Lion engine is the star exhibition in the Museum of Liverpool’s transport gallery. Which three films has it appeared in?
6. In which decade was Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella set?
7. Where did the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra perform Mahler’s Symphony No.8?
8. Which former pop star played Paulette in Legally Blonde, at the Liverpool Empire, and which group did she used to belong to?
9. Which comedian brought his Dandelion Mind show to the Echo Arena?
10. What year was the focus of the Walker Art Gallery’s exhibition Art in Revolution?
11. Where does Donna Marie end up, in the Royal Court’s current show, Little Scouse on the Prairie?
12. Former Hear’Say member Noel Sullivan starred in which musical at the Liverpool Empire?
13. What was the theme of this year’s Arabic Arts Festival?
14. What is the name of Liverpool’s new photography festival, which launched this year?
15. Which historical figure was the lead role in The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, shown at the Liverpool Playhouse, based on?
16. What is the new name of the Neptune Theatre and why has it been called that?
17. Con O’Neill and Alan Stocks starred together in which play at the Everyman?
18. Who performed his Alimony Tour at the Liverpool Empire?
19. Which superhero appeared at the Echo Arena in September?
20. Don McLean appeared at the Philharmonic Hall in June. His song, American Pie, is about which tragic event?
21. Which Liverpool commercial gallery announced it would be moving to London in 2012?
22. In July, The Bluecoat opened an exhibition of art based on what genre of music?
23. The RLPO began its No.9s series. What is the Curse of the Nines?
24. Who won the Liverpool Art Prize?
25. Who were the special guests in Status Quo’s Christmas concert at the Echo Arena?
